To give you "just an idea" of the messages circulating
these days. This is from a friend who gave a lot of time, energy and money to
the General:

We fed him, we protected him, we surrounded him, we cared
for him, we elevated him and thrust him forward, and yet he has become our
monster of a child who is cannibalizing us. We thought we were doing the right
thing; we thought the object of our creation was going to protect us by applying
the principles of democracy and freedom as the philosophers of the
Enlightenment, the likes of Rousseau and Montesquieu taught us.

But here he is, claiming the right to strike, shutting us
inside our homes, burning tires under our windows, terrorizing us, and then
having the dishonorable gall and the arrogance to claim that the strike was a
success.

If this is not terrorism, then what is?

We fought against the Hariri clique and their misuse of
power and their crimes of insider wheeling-dealing, and we will continue to do
so. We fought against corruption and we will continue to do so. We hate the
Hakim [Geagea] for the blood on his hands. We despise Sayyed Hassan for his
dishonorable hypocrisy and his blind allegiance to his masters and his insidious
objectives of medieval vintage. And now, we will fight against Michel Aoun
because he has amply demonstrated to us that his purist discourse against
corruption is no more than a vulgar demagogical tool in the service of his real
objective, which is to quench his thirst for power and then perhaps to enrich
himself and those around him.

Otherwise, he could have been satisfied with being a vital,
positive and significant force in the life of the country; he could have used
Parliament to get to the task of critiquing and questioning the government, and
contributed to the elaboration of more equitable legislations and more
democratic institutions. There is no need to snatch the Presidency or a few
cabinet posts. The constitution of the Republic is a parliamentary one, and real
power is in Parliament.

It is true that, in order to become part of the insiders
club and siphon money out of the lifeblood of the country, one must be in
government! This is what explains Michel Aoun’s lack of interest in developing
his parliamentary power base, preferring a maddening race towards the executive
power. Too bad! He could have, with the more civilized alternative of
Parliament, convinced so many more of his compatriots of his platform, and thus
gain a decisive and determining parliamentary share to influence in a democratic
and more lasting way the politics of the government and his country’s future.

A famous political commentator once said: “To understand
their strategies, follow the scent of money.”
Let us all have the courage to reject all of them because they are all
despicable.